“Ol’ Man Island”

Right at the heart of the Port Orleans Riverside resort lies the 3½ acre Ol’ Man Island. This secluded, lushly wooded island is easily accessed from the various accommodation buildings via three wooden bridges and is home to many of the resort’s recreational activities, including the main feature swimming pool, children’s playground and fishing hole.

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Feature Swimming Pool

Down by the levee, just over the bridge lies Ol’ Man Island, full of water adventure. It’s an old fashioned “Swimmin’ Hole” with a large, rustic water slide fashioned after an old saw mill and built into the mill works.

The main feature pool at Riverside is a fun swimming area with waterfalls to duck under and a curved slide to hurtle down, along with sun beds and a pool bar for the adult aprés-swim time. There is also a separate shallow children’s pool and a jacuzzi hot tub right next to the main pool area.

The Ol’ Man Island swimming pool and the Muddy Rivers bar reopened on 5th March 2016 after a two-month refurbishment project.

Poolside activities are organised daily, weather permitting. A full schedule is posted at the resort and a printed copy should be also provided in your welcome pack — or for this month’s details, please see the Recreation Activities Schedule page.

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The main feature swimming pool on Ol’ Man Island at Port Orleans Riverside.(360° image: drag to scroll, +/- to zoom, double-click for fullscreen)

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Opening hours: 9am—11pm, reduced off-season (e.g. 10am—9pm during Jan/Feb). Currently 9am—10pm (March 2016)Note: Feature Pool opening hours are now enforced, and the area is gated and locked at all other times.

For health and safety reasons, diaper-age children must wear plastic pants or swim diapers

Showers and coin-operated lockers ($1 in quarters) are available at the restroom area next to the Muddy Rivers pool bar

Towel pickup is available at the poolside and there is also a towel drop location

The pool is available for use by any guests staying at Port Orleans Riverside or Port Orleans French Quarter for the entire duration of their stay (including their arrival and checkout days)

Safety devices permitted at Walt Disney World resort pools:

Walt Disney World approved flotation devices, which must be securely attached and supervising adults must remain within arms reach of the person using the device. Free life jackets for children are available poolside

Any US Coast Guard Type II or Type III personal flotation device

Arm Bands

Swim Rings (split rings and full rings)

Beach Balls

Not permitted at Walt Disney World resort pools:

Hard Frisbees

Hard balls

Plastic Boats

Rafts

Jacuzzi Hot Tub

Opening hours: as per main Feature Pool (now enforced, so sadly no more midnight dips in the Riverside hot tub. The French Quarter hot tub is often available outside of regular pool hours though)

Maximum temperature: 104°F

Maximum use: 15 minutes

Bathing Load: 7 (?) persons

Chair Lift available to provide access for guests with limited mobility

No food or beverages in pool or on pool wet deck

No glass within fenced pool area

Shower before entering

Children under 12 years of age must have adult supervision

For health and safety reasons, diaper-age children must wear plastic pants or swim diapers

The Muddy Rivers pool bar is open from 11:30am until 9:30pm (varies seasonally) and serves a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and hot and cold snacks. It features a pleasant shaded seating area in clear sight of the main pool.

The Ol’ Man Island area also features various other recreational activities such as Cane Pole Fishing, a evening storytelling sessions round an open campfire and a children’s play area, now with a tetherball game added. For more information on these facilities, please refer to the general Recreation page.

Riverside’s Five ‘Quiet’ Leisure Pools

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The quiet pool adjacent to Parterre Place mansion building

As Port Orleans Riverside is such a large resort, in addition to the main feature pool on Ol’ Man Island there are also five smaller “quiet pools” dotted around the grounds — two in the Magnolia Bend mansion building area and three in the Alligator Bayou section.

Each of these quiet pools also features a Laundry Room with guest-operated washing and drying facilities — your laundry can be taking care of itself while you take a refreshing dip in the pool. There are 8 washers and 12 dryers in each of the Alligator Bayou rooms, while the Magnolia Bends rooms have 10 washers and 16 dryers each. Note: as from April 2015, the machines at Port Orleans now ONLY accept credit/debit cards — you cannot use cash, nor can you pay using a Magic Band. The cost is $3.00 per washing load and another $3.00 for drying (prices last verified January 2016).

The new machines are now also internet connected. Yes, really! You can check on the current status of any of the washers and driers at Port Orleans via the website www.laundryview.com/disneyworld/ using either a computer or a mobile device, which allows you check for available machines and also to see when your own load has finished.

Towels are not currently available at the quiet pools so you’ll need to bring your own from your room (there is a drop drop bin though). Note: In January/February 2015 the resort tested a towel pickup service at the quiet pools, but it was not continued after the trial.

The pools are available for use by any guests staying at Port Orleans Riverside or Port Orleans French Quarter for the entire duration of their stay (including their arrival and checkout days)

Towels are not currently available at the quiet pools so you’ll need to bring your own from your room (there is a drop drop bin though). Note: In January/February 2015 the resort tested a towel pickup service at the quiet pools, but it was not continued after the trial.

The pools are available for use by any guests staying at Port Orleans Riverside or Port Orleans French Quarter for the entire duration of their stay (including their arrival and checkout days)